Marie Rhines, a classically-trained violinist/composer whose style encompasses classical, European, traditional Americana and Western, holds a Master of Music Degree from Yale University and the New England Conservatory of Music and a Bachelor of Arts Degree in History and Political Science from Northeastern and Boston Universities. She has been the recipient of twenty-two awards from ASCAP for composing, and various other awards including a Rockefeller Grant from the American Music Center in New York.
The New England-bred (Lexington/Boston/Vermont/CapeCod) musician, singer and composer, has mastered a variety of violin and fiddle techniques, encompassing Scottish reels and pipe tunes from the Isle of Skye, Shetland fiddle tunes, Irish jigs and reels, old time New England and Appalachian Bluegrass. Rhines currently lives in Sedona, Arizona where she has been exploring the history and culture of the American cowboy/cowgirl. For several years she has concentrated on researching and writing Western music, and has recently resumed touring.
Rhines also performs her original violin concertos based on Americana fiddling with symphony orchestras. In addition Ms Rhines also offers a music and lecture program entitled "Incredible Women of the West", that has proven very popular in colleges and museums.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS INCLUDE:
Violinist-Composer Artist-in-Residence, University of California, La Jolla, CA
Numerous ASCAP Awards
Conductor: Mozart Orchestra, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Violinist-Composer Artist-in-Residence, State of Tennessee, Nashville
Creator & Producer WGBH-FM National Public Radio program in Boston: "The Folk Heritage"
Rockefeller Award from American Music Center, New York City
Guest composer and soloist with the 15th Air Force Band of the Golden West and Command Band
of the Air Force Reserves. Seven city tour for Operation Desert Storm
Arizona Cowboy Poets Gathering, Prescott AZ, Guest Artist 1991-2002
Listings in various Who's Who:
Who's Who in America
Who's Who in the West
Who's Who in Entertainment
Who's Who in the World
PERFORMANCES WITH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS INCLUDE:
San Diego Symphony
Portland Symphony
Chattanooga Symphony and Opera Chorus
Flagstaff Symphony
Boulder Chamber Orchestra, plus many others
RECORD PRODUCER, RECORDING ARTIST, COMPOSER AND ARRANGER:
Airborne Records, Nashville, TN
Ladyslipper Records, Durham, NC
Philo Records, Burlington VT
Biscuit City Records, Denver, CO
MAJOR SOLO VIOLIN CONCERT APPEARANCES
(Performing her own original compositions)
Lincoln Center, New York
National Academy of Sciences, Washington DC
University of California, La Jolla
Harvard University, Cambridge MA
Warsaw, Mrongovia, Poland, with Mickey Newbury (for 30,000 people)
University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, CA
Starlight Festival of Chamber Music, Yale University Law School
Roxy Theatre, Los Angeles, CA
Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Denver, CO
Edmonton Folk Festival, Canada
Venetian Room, Fairmont Hotel, San Francisco, CA
